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LDK Solar buys into US firm

2011-04-02 11:15

Chinese solar energy giant LDK Solar Co announced Friday that the company aquired 70 percent interest in US-based Solar Power Inc (SPI) for approximately $33 million.

Rising fuel prices cut into power producers' profits

2011-04-01 15:31

With electricity generation increasing in 2010, China's major power producers saw their profits dwindling due to rising fuel prices, the International Finance News reported Friday.

87 IPO firms raise 96b yuan in Q1

2011-04-01 15:18

In the first quarter of this year, 87 companies launched on Chinese mainland's A-share market through initial public offerings (IPO) and raised 96 billion yuan, the China Securities Journal reported Friday.

Education on death leads to better life

2011-03-31 16:51

Have you imagined what it will look like when your Judgment Day falls and you are about to bid farewell to the world? Fearful, anxious? What does death really mean?

Caring for life at end

2011-03-31 16:28

Yuan Shuping tried to sound older over the phone, yet her voice glistened with the mellowness of a 20-year-old who has been working as a rest home nurse for three years.

Industry chain behind hacker attacks on government websites

2011-03-30 17:59

Two young men, Fan Dongdong and Wen Chao, who have only a junior high school education, received 18- and 12-month sentences for hacking into the website of the country's Supreme People's Procuratorate - the top agency for legal supervision - and more than a dozen other government websites.

Beijing to curb new home prices

2011-03-30 16:44

The Beijing municipal government pledged to keep new home prices steady or even lower them this year in response to the Central Government's call to keep housing prices in check, local and international media outlets reported Wednesday.
Shanghai sets target for home-price rise